CARROLLTON, Ga. -- A UWG professor emeritus of history will hold a discussion about his latest book next week.

Dr. John Ferling is the first speaker in the League of Women Voters of Carrollton & Carroll County Summer Writers Series. His book, Independence: The Struggle to Set America Free, is about the crisis between the American colonies and the British from the Boston Tea Party in December 1773 to the Declaration of Independence three years later.